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by Robert Moran Published June 9, 2025, 9:05 p.m. ET

Detectives are investigating the death in Camden of a 16-year-old high school football star who was killed in a gun “discharge” incident late last week, the Camden County Prosecutor’s Office said Monday.

On Friday around 12:35 p.m., officers from the Camden County Police Department responded to a report of a person shot at a residence on the 1500 block of Thorn Street.

Xyere Brooks, a sophomore at Kipp Cooper Norcross Academy, was found with a gunshot wound inside the residence and was transported to Cooper University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 2:15 p.m.

“Multiple juveniles were determined to have been in the residence at the time of the incide

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